The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have ...
Sherrilyn Ifill delivered a lecture on reimagining American democracy, the role of the 14th Amendment of the U.S.
And far too many federal judges charged with defending the Constitution seem to want that, too.
The 2025 American Family Survey finds most support constitutional right to birthright citizenship although President Trump ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson may not see a legal way for President Donald Trump to run for a third term, but Trump will do it ...
“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...
The concept of birthright citizenship is clearly defined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, our nation’s most fundamental legal document. Everyone born in the United States is automatically a ...